Note 2 — Chapter I · FROM KING ROAD, BRISTOL, TO CORK IN IRELAND.

Writing of Bristol in 1808, Pinkerton says that "in the late wars with France they built here a sort of galleys, called runners, which being well armed and manned, and furnished with letters of marque, overtook and mastered several prizes of that nation. Many of these ships were then also carriers for the London merchants, who ordered their goods to be landed here, and sent to Gloucester by water, thence by land to Lechlade, and thence down the Thames to London; the carriage being so reasonable that it was more than paid for by the difference of the insurance and risque between this port and London."